The Law of Attention

In practice, the Law of Attraction is really the Law of Attention. We put our attention on that which we fear and that which we want. If you feel as if you “must” win, at some point failure is going to be so scary that your attention will start to fixate on some obstacle and while you are hung up on that you will most likely fail to do something else properly.

“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk–and to act.” Andre Malraux (French Historian, Novelist and Statesman 1901-1976)

The freer you are with focusing and refocusing your attention, the faster and more accurately you can calculate, predict, decide, act, adjust, and get your desired result. It’s the same as driving a car while talking on the phone, doing your makeup or eating a cheeseburger (not recommended!), then getting to the destination and not even remembering what route was traveled. It can be effortless, even though the reality is that you are careening down the road at 60 mph with a two-foot margin of error, driving on a two-lane road with cars coming at you at the same speed. That is 120 mph closing speed! Yet we don’t think twice about doing this.

By comparison, if a person falls off of a building they can ultimately reach the same speed of about 120 mph in free fall in what is called terminal velocity. We get completely numb and frozen by this risk, yet it’s the same level of threat as driving the car.

While growing up, you had to learn to walk and you (typically) had to learn to drive. Now that you have done it and done it and done it, you are now relatively fearless in these areas. Success in anything works the same way. You will have some things to learn, but you will learn them. But if you take it all too seriously, your attention will be hard to control and that is where the effort comes in.

The true effort is in controlling your attention, not in what you are doing.

This is even true in physical activities such as weight lifting. When you feel like you are on top of the world it feels good to push the body to its limits and you are actually stronger and more capable. You are more successful.

Consider another aspect to the Law of Attention. Let’s explore a diet mentality and the attempt to control dietary cravings. You can attempt to not give the craving any attention, but this can be much easier said than done. Ultimately everything is about results, and nothing succeeds like success. Ignoring something is not the same as conquering it.

EXERCISE:

The next time you are craving something, take a moment to locate the exact location of the craving in the physical universe. Try to find it. Where is it exactly? Somewhere in your body? In your environment? Write down exactly where it is.

Repeat this as often as you have this particular craving. Every time you have this craving write down where you can locate it. As you continue to do this you will discover that the amount of impact the craving has will diminish and extinguish by itself. Eventually you will experience a wonderful, curious realization: there is no more craving!

This works for any craving you experience.

Karzai puts conditions on Pakistan for strategic pact

KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday addressed the possibility of signing a strategic pact with Pakistan, which he accuses of harboring Taliban insurgents.

“We are happy to have strategic relations with Pakistan. We want this strategic pact with Pakistan. But we want some conditions and preconditions from Pakistan.
“First they should stop terrorists, suicide bombers crossing to Afghanistan,” he said. “If these conditions are met – terrorism is stopped, extremism is dismantled, anti-Afghan activities are stopped, destruction of Afghanistan is stopped, friendship starts between the two countries which hasn’t happened so far – then a strategic pact would be signed between Afghanistan and Pakistan.”
President Karzai, while addressing a news conference in Kabul, criticized Western media for gloomy predictions about Afghanistan’s future once US-led foreign forces withdraw from the war against Taliban insurgents in 2014.
“This is a psychological war by the Western media against Afghanistan: once the foreign troops pull out, Afghanistan will be poor, there will be civil war and the Taliban will return, etcetera,” Karzai said.
The president said he had raised the issue with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a visit to the United States for the UN General Assembly last week.
“I believe if the objective is to influence future agreements on the number of US military bases, the presence of US troops beyond 2014 – it can’t achieve this through psychological war,” he said.
The United States has said it does not seek permanent bases in Afghanistan, but is expected to keep a small force in the country after 2014 for counter-terror operations. Details have not yet been agreed.
Karzai mentioned in particular The New York Times, BBC and CNN, adding, however, that “unfortunately, local media, television and radios and analysts are also predicting civil war in Afghanistan once foreign troops pull out”.
Respected Afghan expert Gilles Dorronsoro of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is just one among many analysts who have predicted renewed strife in Afghanistan.
“After 2014, the level of US support for the Afghan regime will be limited and, after a new phase in the civil war, a Taliban victory will likely follow,” he wrote recently.

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Pakistan is allowing exports of 200,000 tonnes of sugar on top of the 300,000 tonnes already permitted as it looks to trim surplus stocks and bolster domestic prices.—File Photo

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Indian traders have sealed deals to import about 5,000 tonnes of white sugar from Pakistan, which has just allowed an extra 200,000 tonnes of overseas sales of the sweetener, Indian trade sources said on Thursday.

“The traders who have contracted imports from Pakistan perhaps found the FOB price of $545 per tonne attractive enough to buy. They stand to gain $15-$20 a tonne after paying a duty of 10 per cent,” said a New Delhi-based trader, who did not wish to be named.
India, the world’s top consumer and the biggest producer behind Brazil, levies a 10 per cent tax on sugar imports.
India has been an exporter for the past two years. Exports in the year to September 2012 totalled 3.3 million tonnes.
The country is expected to have a small exportable surplus in 2012/13 as well, although higher production costs could make it difficult to find buyers at prices acceptable to mills.
Whites from Pakistan have been booked for delivery at the eastern Haldia port, a second trader said.
The sugar price in western India is around $680 per tonne, while in northern and eastern parts of the country it is as high as $720.
Last month, Indian mills signed deals to buy up to 450,000 tonnes of Brazilian raw sugar because of the attractive gap between domestic and overseas prices.

Three killed in US drone strike in Mir Ali

A US drone strike targeting a vehicle killed at least three persons Monday in Mir Ali, security officials said.
The strike took place in the Khaider Khel area of Mir Ali district, 30 kilometres (18 miles) east of Miranshah, the capital of North Waziristan tribal region.
"US drones fired four missiles on a militant vehicle, killing three suspected militants," a security official told AFP, adding that several drones were flying in the area at the time of the attack.
Another security official confirmed the attack and casualties and said the identities of the militants killed in the strike were not immediately clear.
Monday's U.S. drone strike is the 31st of its kind (counted on daily) in Pakistan since 2012. So far this year, at least 222 people have reportedly been killed in such strikes.Washington has long demanded that Pakistan take action against the Haqqanis, whom the United States accused of attacking the US embassy in Kabul in September last year and acting like the "veritable arm" of Pakistani intelligence.
Pakistan has in turn demanded that Afghan and US forces do more to stop Pakistani Taliban crossing the border from Afghanistan to launch attacks on its forces.
There has been a dramatic increase in US drone strikes in Pakistan since May, when a NATO summit in Chicago failed to strike a deal to end a six-month blockade on convoys transporting supplies to coalition forces in Afghanistan.
Islamabad and Washington have been seeking to patch up their fractious relationship in recent months, with the supply route has reopening, after a series of crises in 2011 saw ties between the "war on terror" allies plunge.
But attacks by unmanned US aircraft remain contentious -- they are deeply unpopular in Pakistan, which says they violate its sovereignty and fan anti-US sentiment, but American officials are said to believe they are too important to give up.
Washington considers Pakistan's semi-autonomous northwestern tribal belt as the main hub of Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants plotting attacks on the West and in Afghanistan.

Quick Fuel Review

After continuous increase in petrol and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) prices from two weeks, the government of Pakistan has finally provided relief to the people of Pakistan, reducing Rs 6 on petrol and Rs 5 on CNG.   

According to a notification issued by Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) on Sunday, the prices will go into effect at 12 midnight on October 1^st.

After reduction of Rs 6, the new price of petrol is now Rs102.45 per litre. High Speed diesel has been reduced by Rs14 and now stands at Rs113.16 per litre.

Light diesel has been reduced by Rs0.95 and is now at Rs96.22 per litre. Kerosene was reduced by Rs0.40 and is now Rs109.23 per litre.

Following a cut in petrol prices, the price of compressed natural gas (CNG), pegged at 60% of petrol’s, have also come down.

In Region-I, comprising Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, CNG will cost Rs93.79 per kg, down Rs5.49 from last week’s rate of Rs99.28 per kg. In Region-II, which includes Sindh and Punjab, CNG price has been slashed by Rs5.02 to Rs85.68 per kg from Rs90.70 per kg.